In high school, I had a great programmable calculator. I’d
program it to solve complicated math and science problems
“automatically” for me. Most of my teachers got upset if they
found out, but I’ll always remember one especially enlightened
teacher who didn’t. He said something to the effect of “Hey, if
you managed to write software to solve the equation, you must
thoroughly understand the problem. Way to go!”.

Just a quick update, I was invited to speak at Sys-Con’s Cloud Computing
Expo 2008 West (how’s that for a mouthful?) and accepted,
planning on talking about SkyNet, S3, and our future use of cloud
computing. Alas, my Inbox is so crazy, I failed to see the
handful of emails the conference sent me asking me to sign a
contract of some type. So I missed the deadline and they canceled
my spot. (BTW, I can’t recall a conference ever asking me to sign
something to speak, but this one does and I was full of …

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